COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

The Kapampangan language has found new life in the liturgy, thanks to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando (RCASF), which recently ...

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis ... move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2024, he could be seen ...

When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

Pope Francis prays during the solemn Mass for the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican ... Christians who will celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis holds the cross as he presides over an Epiphany mass in St.Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican ...

Catholic politics is as intense as the secular kind – particularly now, when clerics worldwide are at odds over how to respond to plummeting mass attendance ... asked the Vatican to investigate.

I had the great pleasure of participating in a grand welcome in the small central Kerala town of Changanassery for India’s ...

A visitor touches the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis during Christmas Mass the night prior to ... to Jan. 7, the Vatican said, ...

The Three Kings brought expensive classic gifts because they thought they would meet a king or potentate, which of course ...

According to Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni ... always uses a wheelchair to move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, he could be seen ...

February marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. Fought in the closing months of World War II, the operation to ...